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Hello,

I am still running into the problem with the homepage appearance with the window is resized. I just added an 768×90 image as an Header Ad per your example in the help files. The problem that occurs is that the image disappears when the width of the browser window is reduced. I would really like to just fix the size of the page to eliminate this issues. Also, I do not anticipate the requirement for our website to be compatible with smart phones (if this has any impact on the problem).

Thanks!

@shashank Follow the following steps:

Add this code to your functions.php file:

function time_ago( $type = 'post' ) {
	$d = 'comment' == $type ? 'get_comment_time' : 'get_post_time';
	return human_time_diff($d('U'), current_time('timestamp')) . " " . __('ago');
}

Then, use this: <?php echo time_ago();?> on any theme file to show it.

Hope that helps.

Hi Lucian,

Thanks for your reply.

The way i added the author box is – http://awesomescreenshot.com/0c53cvqxc2

As each author has his own sidebar, i have just added that to each one, only calling their specific ID.

I see what you mean, when i set a height for that as 493px for example, the whole thing works fine.

Any ideas?

Thanks a lot.

As to social buttons, I’m actually favoring this layout at top of posts on CNET, as an example of “nicely done” …

http://www.cnet.com/news/mozilla-expands-advertising-experiment-to-many-more-firefox-users/

Hi Lucian, thank you so much for your reply, for some reason this peice of css is not working on http://GreekReporter.com. I saw it is working on your example, but not sure why it is nit working on our end. Any thoughts? Thank you again!

Default compression for images is managed by wordpress unless you’re using a plugin of some kind; not the theme; the default “quality factor” is 90 but can be increased to 95 or 100 (no compression) by adding line in functions.php to set that. But not recommended. We typically change our compression level to 60, for faster page speed.

Be aware that jpeg images with a lot of “reds” don’t compress well ever, sadly to do how lossy jpeg/mpeg compression works.

Also, if you upload an image with very low quality the quality only gets worse.

For charts such as you’re using on your sample page, it’s best to use PNG files vs jpeg and embed those directly into the page so they are not resized/resampled to new sizes except for thumbnails. Try saving it as PNG file and place in the post, and you’ll see a HUGE improvement.

Nothing with reds/orange/dark pink compress well with jpeg — it’s nothing to do with the theme 🙂

I’m sorry, you can visit the comment section for a example over here: http://goo.gl/4IO4Wf

@JBH
Hi, looks like setting proper folder permissions on your site really helped to start 🙂

But, looking at your example post page you have a LOT of work to do.

most of your errors have nothing to do with the theme; so you’re going to want to address all that stuff first. Possibly find better solutions for what you’re doing with some of those external systems. Basically you’re loading too many things from external sites, which will lower your scores; more than 5 external things is bad for speed.

For example – this is crazy:
This page has 29 external Javascript scripts. Try combining them into one. This page has 13 external stylesheets. Try combining them into one. This page has 7 external background images. Try combining them with CSS sprites.

Note you can’t do much about the stuff you’re loading from other sites/servers, but you should
1) remove “versioning” — implement the .htaccess (if running Apache) and functions.php suggestions which I’ve posted, especially for the remove of the version tags. If running child theme you may need to put in child version; not sure on that.
2) optimize javascript delivery; use the td speed booster plugin to help with theme resources; but it won’t help with external stuff you’re loading
3) you cant do anything about the image dimensions of the things being loaded off external websites
4) prefer async – you’d have to hack whatever plugin you’re using for Facebook to load that as async
5) optimize images – be sure what you upload is already as small as possible; also use something like smushit or similar; possibly use my functions.php code for setting smaller default compression size for WordPress built in function (e.g., change from default 90 to 6); then do regenerate thumbnails — boom everything 20% smaller!
7) consistent URL errors coming from your “leadpages” stuff
8) vary encoding errors – coming mostly from leadpages
9) redirect issues – whatever you’re doing with Facebook and Google generating errors
10) bad request with favicon

(etc.)

Hi Lucia,

Thanks for testing! I’ve tried the second css also, but unfortunatly, no changes.

The css is still in my custom css field and i’ve put a link in a comment for example. You can check it

Thanks again!

Hi tagDiv,

My Featured category ID = 2

I using bellow code in file functions.php themes (i append code end of file)

add_action( ‘pre_get_posts’, ‘be_exclude_category_from_blog’ );
function be_exclude_category_from_blog( $query ) {

if( $query->is_main_query() && $query->is_category() ) {
$query->set( ‘cat’, ‘-2’ );
}
}

but it not working exclude post in featured.

my post added 2 categories: cars and featured.

when load site, i see post at featured and cars.

best regards,

Note with twitter that once they cache a certain page, they don’t recache it once updated typically. I have this issue on couple of sites where we did some major updates and wanted to re share some pages, but both FB and twitter keep the OLD info, old photo, etc. and won’t update the NEW info, since they already have been “shared” the “old/bad” version. This may not apply to you, but keep in mind FB and Twitter have so much traffic and frequent technical issues, that sometimes there is simply nothing you can do about it as it has nothing to do with your site whatsoever.

Basically if you look at your page source and see all the properly formatted og:tags and twitter tags, description and title tags, then the issue is NOT with your site.

For example, I was sharing some stories from CNN to my G+ account, and all that was showing in the share was the photo and the page URL, no headline, and no description. Issue not with CNN, but with Google.

Likely doesn’t help, but it’s an on/off/on problem with sharing stuff to FB in particular, and sometimes G+. Twitter has been mostly stable, but they do have problems but they do at least have a developer page to SHOW what systems in their network are/are not working in realtinme.

Twitter status alert: http://status.twitter.com/

Twitter network/API status: https://dev.twitter.com/status

Facebook: Platform Live Status: https://developers.facebook.com/status/

example on Facebook Aug 1:
August 1 at 8:59am

Increased errors/latency on all Platform surfaces
Facebook is currently experiencing an issue that is affecting all API and web surfaces. Our engineers detected the issue quickly and are working to resolve it ASAP. We’ll update shortly.

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Hi, the theme layout would have to change for most of those social media options. You could certainly hack this theme, but in one example, you’d have to redesign the layout to have a wide layout for post top, for image and headline, then a skinny column on left for that, and then that would end up going above the story box for mobile devices.

For breaking news, you can obviously add a text box on your home page and use CSS to style a breaking news box – you have that ability right now. It would not be on ALL pages site wide, but you could easily add that to the single post template by calling a “breaking” file, and leave that empty if no breaking news, or populate when you have something earth shattering if your site actually breaks news in realtime. Simple to do. I think this might be on the list of 150+ “requests” for the theme, but not a hot topic for most, and so doubtful you’d see this anytime soon, unfortunately. But easy to add yourself within a few minutes of work.

For the social media stuff, you could create a php file with the social media elements you want, then add that in a float left div with right margin in the single post template at start of the post text, for example, or put a widget on top right of your post custom sidebar – you could hardcode by making a custom sidebar to load for the posts where the social media stuff is hard coded to query current post meta, and then still have the widget areas below that.

But don’t assume I’m being contrarian or negative in any way. Many “custom” things are pretty easy to do with existing plugins, or a couple of quick hacks to the single post template.

• This reply was modified 11 years by simchris.